Hey! I saw the film at Sibos last week, and I just want to say that you guys did a great job telling the story of Bitcoin and explaining it, at least from the perspective of this newbie. I was so interested that I actually bought my first Bitcoin around 20 minutes into the screening! Anyway, best of luck with the film!

Way less than that. Distributors and aggregators also take a cut in the middle after the platform takes first cut. So torrent + donate is by far the best way even if you sent like 50% the retail average for it.

SOURCE: I produce movies. If you rent a title from me on Vimeo, which is more generous than bigger VoD services like iTunes with its cut, I would see about $0.50 on the dollar. If you bought the same title on iTunes, I'd see about $0.38 on the dollar.

Yep. If there is a way to marry OpenBazaar to digital media distribution e.g. Amazon Instant + BitTorrent tech, this would solve many of these middle men issues. You can't get on iTunes or the like without an aggregator or distributor.

That's cool. Really wish TPB and all others did this and automatically showed QR codes for them. I don't think they understand how big of a difference that would make for the music and movie industries. We would just need a way for people to be able to verify that the address belongs to the content owner, and not the uploader, using something like www.onename.io.

Or just go straight to the magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9726736573492069ee27ee0c1d27127d94a92267&dn=The+Rise+and+Rise+of+Bitcoin+-+HD&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

It's a great documentary. You're missing out. Very well put together and ties the story of what happened up until about February of 2014 really well. Get it. Watch it. I had tears in my eyes at some points (I get sentimental about the prospect of bitcoin changing the world).

Okay, lets take your word for it...will report back once tears have been released.

edit: 1.6gb? so the filmmakers want to propel the adoption of a currency for the unbanked by releasing their film in a file size that's convenient for the demographic that can afford and has access to broadband? why is this movie not streaming free somewhere in different resolutions? or rather, what was holding the filmmakers back from asking for support to do something like that when the movie was screened

edit2: will not download till confirmation of the file not being malicious has been received

Transaction volume isn't very good I think, because sometimes I'll move coins between my own wallets several times a day. And, a ton of transactions are just tiny gambling amounts on SatoshiDice spamming the whole system.

My favorite measure is the amount of funding going into Bitcoin-related businesses and the number of merchants accepting Bitcoin. As well as how much revenue these merchants are getting. All those to me are metrics of adoption.

People, including myself, have been waiting a long time for access to this documentary. The uploader's actions are valuable to me, and I applaud his effort, even if it was only 2 clicks. He played (assumably) no role in the creation of the documentary, but in it's distribution, which apparently the creators completely suck at.

It's been done plenty of times in the past. All you need is to exploit a vulnerability in the way some library handles a particular aspect of a file and you can get the media player to execute code for you.

Not really, if it became possible to get infected by opening non-executable formats the world of information security would panic like with the recent ShellShock bug.

It is theoretically possible if the player applications are horrifically coded and for example execute code put into metadata, but's that not really a worry nowadays if you're using trustworthy software to open your files.

And then there are ways to trick you into believing that you are opening a movie or an image, but in reality you execute an application.One way to do it: tutorial-how-to-hide-exe-files-into-jpgIf you want to be a bit safer, open up your player software (like VLC) and open the file you want to watch from inside the player.

there was a moral authority once in the pirates, fighting the injustice of strong enforcement and unjust copyright. it's become a community that doesn't care and just takes indiscriminately, and it means the larger battle for open culture keeps losing ground

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